supply
v.
provide something that is needed or desired; furnish, equip; make up for, compensate for; temporarily substitute for
n.
act of providing; provision, something that is supplied; reserve, stock; quantity of a commodity available for purchase (Economics)
Supply
supply
Noun
1. an amount of something available for use
(hypernym) indefinite quantity
(hyponym) reservoir
(derivation) provide, ply, cater
2. offering goods and services for sale
(antonym) demand
(hypernym) economic process
(derivation) issue
3. the activity of supplying or providing something
(synonym) provision, supplying
(hypernym) activity
(hyponym) irrigation
(derivation) provide, ply, cater
Verb
1. provide or furnish with; "We provided the room with an electrical heater"
(synonym) provide, render, furnish
(hypernym) give
(hyponym) hydrate
(derivation) provision, supplying
2. circulate or distribute or equip with; "issue a new uniform to the children"; "supply blankets for the beds"
(synonym) issue
(hypernym) distribute
(hyponym) unblock, unfreeze, free, release
(derivation) provision, supplying
3. provide what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests"
(synonym) provide, ply, cater
(hypernym) give
(hyponym) staff
(derivation) provision, supplying
4. state or say further; "`It doesn't matter,' he supplied"
(synonym) add, append
(hypernym) state, say, tell
(hyponym) slip in, stick in, sneak in, insert
Supply
(v. t.)
To serve instead of; to take the place of.
(v. t.)
To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply money for the war.
(v. t.)
To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial lake; -- often followed by with before the thing furnished; as, to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition.
(v. t.)
To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of; as, to supply a pulpit.
(n.)
The food, and the like, which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men; store; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the army was discontented for lack of supplies.
(n.)
The act of supplying; supplial.
(n.)
That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want.
(n.)
Auxiliary troops or reenforcements.
(n.)
An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies.
(n.)
A person who fills a place for a time; one who supplies the place of another; a substitute; esp., a clergyman who supplies a vacant pulpit.
(a.)
Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Supply
the total amount of a good or service available for purchase; along with demand, one of the two key determinants of price.
Supply; Law of Supply
if demand is held constant, an increase in supply leads to a decreased price, while a decrease in supply leads to an increased price.